English Language Arts and Reading Exam Questions With Verified Answers.

English Language Arts and Reading Exam Questions With Verified Answers. Mrs. Lewis is a bilingual teacher and frequently encourages her students' parents to talk a lot with their children at home whether during chores, daily tasks, or shopping to help build their children's vocabulary. A parent contacts Mrs. Lewis wondering how increased conversation will help their child read. Which of the following would be the most appropriate response by Mrs. Lewis? - answerThe development of a student's language skills are intertwined, and increasing the student's vocabulary will allow students to recognize more words while reading A sixth-grade classroom is working on a unit about perspective and active listening. The teacher needs to design an activity that will help students understand how emotional response to the speaker can influence how the audience listens and responds. The teacher plans to show multiple video clips and ask guided questions after the viewings. Which activity below would meet this goal? - answerWatch video clips of speakers with varying purpose, emotional level, and mood. For example, a news clip about a natural disaster and an interview with someone who survived the same disaster A student in a third-grade class is attempting to determine the meaning of the word "scrawny" in the following sentence. There was Sam, ten years old with long, skinny legs and equally scrawny arms, but he had a smile that lit up any room he walked into. Which of the following would best support the student in an attempt to infer the word's meaning? - answersyntactic analysis (Analyzing the syntax in this sentence would help the student infer the word meaning because they would recognize the word as an adjective describing the character's arms.) Of the following, which is the most likely group structure for promoting English proficiency among English Language Learners? - answerHeterogeneous in English proficiency (Placing students in groups where each member has different language proficiency levels allows students to learn and observe proper language models and practice their English. This is the best way to promote English proficiency.) While reviewing her notes, Mrs. Welsh notices that Fred has never volunteered to read aloud to his peers. She suspects he may be avoiding reading because he struggles to pronounce unfamiliar words. What strategy is best for Mrs. Welsh use to help Fred become more confident and improve his oral language and reading relationship? - answerModel using phonemes to sound out new words while she reads to the group. What is the most important reason a speaker needs to plan for his specific audience before giving a presentation? - answerto ensure that subject matter is explained using terms and details the audience will understand Every day, midmorning, the teacher gives her class an opportunity to walk around the room and visit with friends for 3-4 minutes, often telling them to "get it out of their system." After hearing the phrase a few times, a student comes up to ask what she means by that sentence. What should the teacher do to best support her student's understanding of this idiom? - answerExplain the meaning in a more literal way. The English teachers at Anytown District want to promote pragmatic language use among elementary students. Which of the following is the best activity for them to use? - answeracting out everyday situations and role-playing different conversations (This is the best activity because students would be able to participate and practice language use.) Mrs. Scott notices that several of her second-grade students are having problems using gestures appropriately while speaking to the class. What is the best course of action for Mrs. Scott to take? - answerIntervene with appropriate lessons and activities to teach gesturing. (Intervention is the best course of action to ensure the students achieve mastery and growth.) A student who has mastered phonics is able to: - answerhear individual phonemes and manipulate those phonemes into new words. (Phonics is the study of individual letter sounds, so they would be able to do these skills.) Mr. Rick's classroom just received a new student from China. She speaks some English but her main language is Chinese. Her parents speak both Chinese and English in the home. Which accommodation would help her build her English oral language skills and ease the transition into an English-only classroom? - answerBring material into the classroom that relates to her Chinese heritage. (Relating texts to the cultural backgrounds of ELLs makes associating and learning the English terms easier and more relevant.) In the word unreliableness, the underlined part is the: - answerprefix Mrs. White has planned a field trip to a nearby history museum at the end of the month. Her sixth-grade class is made up of about 40% English Language Learners (ELLs), and the majority of the class will not have visited a museum before this trip. In order to best prepare her students for the trip and success with navigating the museum, which activity should she incorporate into her classroom activities? - answerrole-playing activities (Role-playing activities at the museum such as purchasing tickets, observing displays, speaking in a quiet voice, and interacting with museum employees will help all of the students set expectations and prepare how to act and what to say.) Which of the following activities best promotes students' understanding of how oral language relates to literacy? - answermodeling the writing of words or phrases (This is an excellent way to relate oral language to literacy. Students need to repeatedly see and hear words in both their printed and spoken form; in this way, they will get the connection between oral language and literacy.) Mr. Duke wants to break up his class into small groups for a discussion after a multimedia presentation. Mr. Duke has multiple English language learners in his class. Which of the following is the most important criteria for placing English language learners into groups? - answerMake sure the English language learners are placed into various groups to promote vocabulary development. (This will provide a wider exposure to new vocabulary. ) When addressing a large audience in a large auditorium, a teacher should encourage a student to: - answerspeak more loudly and more slowly than normal. (The student should speak loudly and more slowly than usual because this is appropriate when speaking to a large audience in a large room) What are the key components in oral language development? - answerphonemic awareness, vocabulary, accuracy, and reading comprehension What is an example of a morpheme? - answerwrite (A morpheme is a combination of sounds that has meaning in speech or writing and cannot be divided into smaller grammatical parts. "Write" cannot be divided into smaller parts/syllables.) Students are presenting oral reports on books that they read over the summer. Which of the following would be most appropriate for students to include at the conclusion of their oral presentation? - answera summary of the main points To support vocabulary development, which of the following activities would be particularly helpful to English Language Learners when assigning a text related to a new instructional unit? - answeruse visual images when pre-teaching unit vocabulary Mrs. Gosh is making a rubric for an oral presentation. She wants to ensure students have adjusted their communication to meet their audience. She could include appropriate gestures, tone, volume, and: - answerword choice. A teacher wants to help her students understand how a written text can be improved through oral language. Which of the activities below would best help her students understand this concept? - answerHave students read a story silently and then listen to the teacher read it aloud with animated gestures and expression. Amanda is a first-grade student learning to read and is practicing the following words in her reading this week: slide hate pine crime lane nope After learning these words, Amanda is able to read the words "slime," "fate," and "rode" simply by visually recognizing the pattern. Which of the following best describes the processing system that Amanda is using to apply her learning to the new words? - answerorthographic (Orthographic refers to the rules of the language. Amanda has learned that generally, in words that follow the vowel-consonant-"E" pattern, the vowel will say its name. By recognizing this pattern, she will understand the long "I" in both "slide" and "slime.) A kindergarten teacher assesses a student by asking questions based on scenarios. The teacher says, "Listen to me as I say some words very slowly. If I say /c/ /at/, you know the word is 'cat'. What would the word be if I said /d/ /og/?" What skill is this teacher assessing? - answerblending phonemes What enhances the delivery of an oral presentation? - answerVary the rate of speaking, the pitch of your voice, the tone/quality of your voice, and the volume of your voice. Maria, an English language learner, tells the teacher she is concerned the class will not understand her presentation because of her inability to pronounce words perfectly. Which of the following would be the most appropriate recommendation for the teacher to make? - answerHave Maria write out notes that indicate the correct pronunciation of the words. To enhance sixth-grade students' abilities in the area of oral communication and literacy development, a teacher might do all of the following EXCEPT: - answerhave students engage in a computer game that reads aloud and assesses comprehension. Mrs. Thompson is working with her kindergarten students on listening for meaning while stories are read aloud. What activity could she ask them to do to best enhance this skill? - answerTake breaks to have students act out what was read. Students in a fourth-grade classroom are having difficulty with their oral language skills. The teacher provides the students with many opportunities to speak aloud in order to develop these skills. The teacher does this for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: - answerto create situations where students can develop schema. To effectively conclude an oral presentation of a persuasive argument, a student should: - answerbriefly restate the main point of their speech. Ms. Johnson has implemented small, homogeneous, intervention groups in her class to provide instruction to students who have similar needs. This allows Ms. Johnson to invite individual students to join the group to work on a specific set of skills. Which of the following would be the best use of these intervention groups by Ms. Johnson? - answerto provide instruction to a minority of students who have not demonstrated mastery of a specific content objective (Intervention groups allow teachers to create a group based upon ability. This is possible because the group is formed by invitation and is not mandatory. Forming groups based on homogeneous ability allows the teacher to re-teach specific skills or concepts the group may not have grasped during regular classroom instruction.) Mr. Michaels is working to improve the quality of discussions in his class. While he can usually count on having plenty of student share their ideas on a topic, they tend to simply share their answer instead of responding to or building on the ideas of other students. Which of the following strategies would help develop this skill? - answerProvide sentence stems that promote a summary of the previous speaker's thoughts. (Providing sentence stems is a great way to facilitate discussions. It gives students a script for having meaningful conversations and focuses their attention on the objectives.) Organize the room in a way that allows students to see each other while speaking, like a circle. (Changing the classroom layout is beneficial for discussions as students can see one another and conversation feels more natural to the students.) Provide direct instruction on appropriate ways to disagree with a classmate's comments. (Giving guidelines for how to disagree with a classmate will help students use appropriate language and give them a script if they feel timid about responding to peers.) Students in Mr. Jones's fifth-grade class are working on maintaining eye contact during a presentation. Which activity would most help students practice this skill? A Have students peer review each other's speech outlines, checking for content and organization. B Ask students to give short, impromptu speeches on silly topics they are confident in. C Conduct a one-on-one conversation with each student where Mrs. Jones reviews the content of their upcoming presentation. D Ask students to talk about weekend plans while standing at the podium and not fidgeting. - answerB: Ask students to give short, impromptu speeche